Re: $200 million development in Bricktown?
OKC should realize that when it gets a jewel of a project like Pruitt's that they should not hold it up with a two year long bid process. This is ridiculous, hopefully they learned a lesson.
I imagine the city did this extremely long bid process because they realize the mistakes they have done dealing with Hogan and Bass Pro (essentially giving them the land for those), but come on - you had a world class design with local people intent on making it happen. What did we do?
The city drug them into and out of the water, and all of the ink has washed off and now nobody bid on the land.
Hopefully, perhaps cooler heads can convince Pruitt and Funk to reconsider and build OR maybe somebody else will come in with something even Bigger/Better.
It's a two edge sword, but it seems that the city is very eager to get developments like Hogans (no bid process, giving him land, very subpar developments) while at the same time scuffing at urban progressive developments like Funk, factory, so on (lengthy bid process, red tape that has a negative effect).
Why can't this be the other way around? Why couldn't the city give away the Lower Bricktown land to somebody like Funk, who would build an urban development (not a cookie ccutter suburban subpar village that we see today there....).
i hope the city learned a valuable lesson that you can't act so high and mighty when somebody comes forth with a tremendous investment that would have been urban, progressive, and definitely big time. These are the projects that should be expedited not shunned!
Oklahoma City, the RENAISSANCE CITY!
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